ಹೀರೆಕಾಯಿ ಬಜ್ಜಿ/Ridge Gourd Chutney

Past week was a Flu galore at home. One after the other falling sick in a row hope mine is the last attack lucky my daughter has escaped so far. Even with the flu is there a way to get out of cooking or eating no way!. For me whether it is fever flu or cold while hot saaru(rasams) and soups provide me a healing affect but I can never be without eating pachadi/raita/yogurt/gojju. Yeah it is true, until a few years ago I would never touch anything cold during the time of cold like be it yogurt/raitas but now it has changed may be due the weather here in Singapore it makes you eat something cool. This in one such pachadi or you can call it Baji/chutney with slight ting of yogurt goes very well with rice. Sorry buddies my photos are as gloomy as I am, with a little thought whether to post or not finally I agreed with my heart after all this is for my buddies so here it is .

Method: Cut and boil ridge gourd with salt and water. While boiling fry in oil roughly cut chillies, hing and methi seeds. Grind the masala with coconut and jeera seeds. Make sure you do not use additional water while grinding use the water that is left in the boiling of the gourds. Once the coconut is in paste form add the boiled ridge gourd pieces corsely just one blend for 2 secs. Carefull while grinding as it may splash in case the gourds are not cooled enough. Now add onions, salt, jaggery and yogurt for enough sourness as required. Serve with rice.

Note: Make use of very tender Ridge gourds. The texture of this chutney is semi course not very watery nor very thick. You can add more yogurt to make raita. The sweetness of the ridge gourd with flavour of raw jeera and chillies makes it very unique.

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Talk about flu!! All my students pass it on to me…… so the whole of last week I was swinging in and out of it!!
With our kind of weather these foods are always more than welcome!!!!! This chutney sounds nice
You are right coffee, the weather is so gloomy or am i feeling because of the flu :-/. Try this chutney with a young luffa we get here rather than the indian luffa it tastes great!

Flu?get well soon..
By the way,love ridge G chutneys..I make it with the skin actually..try it out !with mustards and urad tampered and a few of green chillies and red chilis,witha small ball of tamarind..peerkai thol chutney…will try your version too as I Love this veg.Thanx for sharing

mm let me do it again..love your entry..will certainly try it as I love this veg..I make chutneys with the skin yeah..mustards and urad tampered,witha few green and red chillied sauted in the same kadai and grinding it witha samll ball of tamarind..Good for a sick mouth..
Get well soon!

Sorry i demarked the comment it was held as a spam dunno why?. We i do make chutney with the peels too!i have posted earlier with the sorekayi peels. thks for letting me know dear 🙂

Oops! I hit the “enter” key by accident That’s supposed to say Hi, Roopa! Your ridge gourd chutney looks really delicious — one of my fav. veggies but have not tried making this. Thank you for sharing it! Hope everyone at your house is on the mend now
Linda

Hi Linda, thks for your concerns do try the chutney i am sure you would love it. We all are feeling better today.